A personal recount of a life within Berlin, Venice and the EU

Sunday, July 09, 2006

Die Rache

It is probably likely that Mr. B. (Banana, Bullshit-teller, Breaker of the rules...) has not respected the rules this time as well and it is very easy to imagine too that he will never accept the final decision of the trial - if it will ever gets till the end.
That could actually be just a Mr. B´s problem, but there would be also some tens million people who would agree with his views...

There is, there was an urgent need for change in Italy, and somehow it seems that some politicians, but just some..., got to the idea that if they do not implement some reforms, many citizens will lose any trust in the system, and not just until the next electoral campaign...
It was already discovered that the Italian fiscal evasion was as high as the total amount of money that the State spends yearly for the Health-Insurance System: ridicolous...in the last weeks it seems that few politicians - with some form of governmental power though - started to consider the issue worth to be discussed...

But the thing is that most of the political debate concerns the mistakes of the other side, or the lack of consistency of the political enemies: the political programs, some plans for the future, an idea on how the system should be, are all lacking...Italians voted twice in five years in order to have some forms of consitutional reforms: both times the reforms were refused, because they definitely were one´s side reforms...this attitude reverberates all around, across the country: there are trials, there are scandals, there are people - our representatives - insulting people who have already insulted somebody else...and it is not just a question of vocabulary...
In this insane environment, every time Mr. B. is processed, the reasons, because of which he is there, become smaller and inside of me a feeling rises again: ok, somebody is trying to get a (temporary) revenge...next time the roles will be switched...
If you look at the Italian political debate thinking about the revenge,you can undersand many more events, definitely true...and sad as well...
Let us wait and see what´is going on...my list of wishes is not so long...but still...

No comments: